Tricholoma psammopus

Species typical of conifers, with a preference for pines or larches, with a convex to flattened cap, 3 to 7 cm in diameter, with an ochre-brown surface bearing purple fibrils, adnate yellow to cream gills, a cylindrical pale ochre stipe covered with brown scales, without any noticeable odour, and with a slightly bitter taste.

Filamentous cuticle formed by cylindrical hyphae arranged more or less parallel, 3 to 8 µm wide, with brown intracellular pigment, with abundant clavate emergent endings, all septate with simple septa (without clamp connections).

Without cystidia.

Lamellar trama regular or parallel.

Basidia clavate, 25 to 30 µm long by 6 to 8 µm wide, with a simple base and tetrasporic.

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with an eccentric apiculus at one end, 6 to 7 µm long by 4.5 to 5 µm wide, with a thick oil drop inside, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.